Unloading the ship. Archival photoMOSCOW, Sept. 13The United States of America has fallen out of Russia's top ten trading partners, trade between the countries has decreased by about 65%, said Vladimir Ivin, deputy head of the Federal Customs Service (FCS), in an interview with RIA Novosti. We had very good trade with the United States, they have always been among the top ten partners, but now they are not. That is, we have a 65 percent drop in trade with the United States,» Ivin said. At the same time, he noted that India. «They are actively buying our products of the fuel and energy sector, the chemical industry. They themselves have increased the export of the pharmaceutical group, food products to us,» he added. The Netherlands is in second place, since it is a hub for trading our energy resources, Turkey is in third place and further — Germany, Belarus, South Korea, Italy, France, Kazakhstan, India. «China is always in first place as a country. Now China accounts for somewhere that's one fifth of Russia's total trade with the world. Although the EU countries have decreased in their trade, as a bloc they still make up a fairly large share. As a bloc, they are even larger than China,» Ivin explained.
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